Wow!!!
Brennan and Clapper are still lying, and they are doing so in ways that suggest a continuation of the 2016 Russia collusion hoax conspiracy and the continuation of a conspiracy to cover up their crimes.
In their latest op-ed in the New York Times, Brennan and Clapper claim that the bogus Steele dossier was not included or referenced in the infamous 2016/2017 ICA falsely alleging that Putin stole the election from Hillary.
“We have testified under oath, and the reviews of the assessment have confirmed, that the dossier was not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions,” Obama’s top two intel officials claim.
This is patently false. We know from the declassified oversight review of the ICA released by Tulsi Gabbard that Brennan and Clapper prepared a secret, compartmented, non-public ICA for Obama and other top officials which explicitly referenced the dossier in the main body of the ICA and used the dossier to support the document’s “key judgment” about Putin’s alleged aspiration to steal the election from Clinton.
In the secret, non-public version of the ICA, four bullet points were listed in support of the key judgment. The fourth was sourced directly to the Steele dossier annex. But in the versions of the ICA provided to Congress and the public, the fourth bullet citing the Steele dossier and the annex itself were removed from the document without a trace. All footnotes to cited material were also removed.
So not only did Brennan and Clapper use the Steele dossier in the ICA, they produced separate versions of ICA to hide their tracks, they lied to Congress about what they did knowing that Congress only had access to the version of the document that comported with their lies, they leaked Steele dossier lies to media to inject the claims into the public bloodstream, and then continued to lie about what they did for the next 9 years, including in this op-ed.
They are clearly engaged in an ongoing criminal conspiracy to cover-up their crimes, and they deserve to be held to account for what they’ve done and continue to do to this country.
Newly declassified documents from the Durham Report Appendix, made public by Senator Chuck Grassley, indicate the Intel Community was fully aware of Hillary Clinton campaign plan to falsely tie President Donald Trump to Russia.